Mother of San Jose-Maui stowaway identified as refugee

A United Nations official says the mother of a California teenager who stowed away on a flight to Hawaii is living in a refugee camp in Ethiopia.

Ubah Mohammed Abdule, 33, is living at the Sheder Refugee Camp in Ethiopia, said the official from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office on Friday. According to the UN, the camp houses about 10,200 displaced Somalis.

Abdullahi said she felt bad that her son risked his life and that her dream is to live with her children in the United States.

FBI agents say surveillance video shows the 15-year-old jumping out of the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines jet on a Maui tarmac Sunday after surviving a cross-Pacific flight from San Jose, California.

Abdullahi said her ex-husband took their three children to California without her knowledge, and that she hadn't heard from them since 2006.

The boy's father told Voice of America his son was always talking about going back to Africa.

Somalia has been plagued with internal conflict, drought and violence for decades. Today, more than 1 million Somali refugees are living in neighboring Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen.